"Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs."
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"There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbs all these incorporeal spirits, and the perfume of all these flowers."
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"The look of a king is itself a deed."
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"No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one"
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"The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age."
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"Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual."
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"What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them."
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"People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain."
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"It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness."
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"A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold."
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"Remembrances last longer than present realities."
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"In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression."
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"The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made."
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"It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope."
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"How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great."
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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.""
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"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. One friend, 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's nation affect the individual."
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"If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge."
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"Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it."
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"feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell."
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