Titan: A Romance
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Source: The Campaner Thal; or, Discourses on the immortality of the soul, tr. by J. Bauer
“Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.”
“Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.”
“Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.”
“A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.”
“The look of a king is itself a deed.”
Source: Levana: or, The doctrine of education
“The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.”
“No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one”
“Remembrances last longer than present realities.”
Source: Titan: A Romance
“It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.”
“feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.”
“Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite.”
“It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.”
“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”
“You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.”
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
Source: Levana: or, The doctrine of education
“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”
“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
“Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.”
“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”
“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.”
“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”
“What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.”
“Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.”
Source: Levana: or, The doctrine of education
“I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.”
Source: Life of Jean Paul F. Richter
“Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”
Source: Titan: A Romance