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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
In women everything is heart, even the head.
Jean Paul
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Jean Paul
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
Jean Paul
The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Jean Paul
Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?
Jean Paul
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Jean Paul
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
Jean Paul
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul
You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.
Jean Paul
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean Paul
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
Jean Paul
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Jean Paul
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Jean Paul
The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.
Jean Paul
When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. The Spartans thought rightly and nobly. In the world of childhood all posterity stands before us, upon which we, like Moses upon the promised land, may only gaze, but not enter.
Jean Paul
How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!
Jean Paul
No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.
Jean Paul
The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.
Jean Paul
Suffering is my gain; I bow To my Heavenly Father's will, And receive it hushed and still; Suffering is my worship now.
Jean Paul
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