“Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courtesy
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“Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courage
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“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Action
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“Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“Weaklings must lie.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Weakness
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“Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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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.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sorrow
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“It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Motivational
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“The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Miracles
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“Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Memory
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“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Friendship
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“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Forgiveness
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“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Age
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“Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”
Jean Paul Richter
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Adversity
