Jean Paul Quotes About Giving
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He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.
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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
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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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