Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they approach.
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What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.Jean Paul Richter
Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens only when it Ascends toward heaven.
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
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
Inspect the neighborhood of thy life every shelf, every nook of thine abode.
Jean Paul Richter
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. Onefriend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one'snation affect the individual.
Jean Paul Richter
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