Jean Paul - Hesperus

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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean Paul

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

Jean Paul

The virtuous heart, like the body, becomes strong and healthy more by labor than by nourishment.

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The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art.

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The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds.

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Passion makes the best observations and draws the most wretched conclusions. It is a telescope whose field is so much the brighter as it is narrower.

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Emanuel looked peacefully as an eternal sundown upon the autumn of his body; indeed the more sand had fallen out of his life-hourglass, the clearer he saw through the empty glass.

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