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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.

— Jean Paul Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.

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The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.

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For when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question.

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