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Quotes from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers — Jean Paul

1763–1825 Germany

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The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Suffering is my gain; I bow
To my Heavenly Father's will,
And receive it hushed and still;
Suffering is my worship now.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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