Jean Paul Richter Quotes & Quotations

Jean Paul Richter Quotes

» Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

» Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

» Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

» The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

» Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

» Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

» We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

» 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.

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

» The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

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