QUOTES by Jean Richter
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"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."
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"All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body."
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"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."
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"True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time."
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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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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another"
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"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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"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."
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"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power."
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"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."
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"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."
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"Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present"
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"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."
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"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's"
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"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life."
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"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations."
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"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him."
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"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
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"In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's na"
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"Anger wishes all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart"
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"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."
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"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
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"Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger."
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"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards."
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