"Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life."
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"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
Jean Paul"Age does not matter if the matter does not age."
Jean Paul"Live your life and forget your age."
Jean Paul"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
Jean Paul"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
Jean Paul"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
Jean Paul"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
Jean Paul"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
Jean Paul"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds."
Jean Paul"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
Jean Paul"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."
Jean Paul"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."
Jean Paul"Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end."
Jean Paul"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
Jean Paul"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
Jean Paul"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."
Jean Paul"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
Jean Paul"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."
Jean Paul"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
Jean Paul"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."
Jean Paul"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."
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