A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's.
More Quotes from Jean Paul Richter:
We find God twice - once within, once without us within us as an eye, without us as a light.Jean Paul Richter
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.
Jean Paul Richter
The long sleep of death closes our scars, And the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half of time which heals us.
Jean Paul Richter
The past and future are veiled but the past wears the widow's veil, the future the virgin's.
Jean Paul Richter
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.'
Jean Paul Richter
Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens only when it Ascends toward heaven.
Jean Paul Richter
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