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• Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.

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  Friendship, Sad, Departed

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• People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.

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  Rain, Flower, Fall

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• Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

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  Literature, Poverty, Loved Ones

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• What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

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  Happiness, Joy, Age

  "The Titan: A Romance".

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• Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

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  Memories, Loss, Men

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• Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

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  Laughter, Light, Laughing

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• Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

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  Life, Forever, Seasons

  "Hesperus". Book by Jean Paul, IX, 1795.

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• Repetition is the mother of education.

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  Mother, Repetition

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• Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

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  God, Goal, Darkness

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• Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

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  Inspirational, Goodbye, Farewell

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• It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."

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  Friendship, Good Friend, Determined

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• In women everything is heart, even the head.

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  Love, Cute, Heart

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• Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• The German language is the organ among the languages.

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  German Language, Language, Organs

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• A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

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  Life, Maidens, Grows

  Jean Paul (1862). “Titan: A Romance”, p.464

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• The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

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  Life, Two, Romance

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

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• Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

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  Reading, Writing, Firsts

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• Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

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  Life, Men, Delicacy

  Jean Paul (1863). “Titan: A Romance”, p.199

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• Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

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  Passion, Observation, Conclusion

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• Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

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  Respect, Responsibility, Roots

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• It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

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  Joy, Age, Ends

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• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

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  Rain, Men, Weather

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• Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

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  Dog, War, Hatred

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• A scholar knows no boredom.

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  Boredom, Scholar, Knows

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• The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

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  Tombstone, Reality, Hunting

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