The past and future are veiled but the past wears the widow's veil, the future the virgin's.
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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
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
Music is the poetry of the air.
Jean Paul Richter
Without a God there is for man neither purpose, nor goal, nor hope, only a wavering future, and an eternal dread of every darkness.
Jean Paul Richter
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive.
Jean Paul Richter
Life, like the waters of the seas, freshens only when it Ascends toward heaven.
Jean Paul Richter
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