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Jean Paul
17 quotes
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) first seen 1800 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Titan (1800-3)
“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 (1763–1825) first seen 1807 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Levana; or, The Doctrine of Education (1807; 1865 translation) p. 1
“Die Erinnerung ist das einzige Paradies, aus welchem wir nicht getrieben werden können.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jean Paul's Geist; oder Chrestomathie, Vierter Theil [4th part], Weimar/Leipzig, (1816)
“The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Treasury of Thought (1872) by Maturin M. Ballou, p. 521
“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted as "Richter", in Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884), p. 161
“The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 366
“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 (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
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“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.”
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“When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.”
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“The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.”
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“The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”
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“The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) said by 1825 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source