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Quotations By Jean Paul Richter


Action
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Beauty
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Danger
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Prayer
Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon. -- Jean Paul Richter

Sorrow
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. -- Jean Paul Richter

Soul
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. -- Jean Paul Richter

Time
Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.