The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by S. Jean Paul Richter

37 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Jeder Mensch hat eine Regen-Ecke seines Lebens aus der ihm das schlimme Wetter nachzieht. Every man has a rainy corner of his life out of which foul weather proceeds and follows after him.— filed under Life
Die Kunst ist zwar nicht das Brod, aber der Wein des Lebens. Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.— filed under Art
Nie zeichnet der Mensch den eignen Charak ter schärfer als in seiner Manier, einen Fremden zu zeichnen. A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's.— filed under Childhood
Die Kritik nimmt oft dem Baume Raupen und Blüthen mit einander. Criticism often takes from the tree Caterpillars and blossoms together.— filed under Criticism
Der lange Schlaf des Todes schliesst unsere Narben zu, und der kurze des Lebens unsere Wunden. The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds.— filed under Custom
Es ist dem Menschen leichter und geläufiger, zu schmeicheln als zu loben. It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise.— filed under Flattery
O, nur eine freie Seele wird nicht alt. Oh, only a free soul will never grow old!— filed under Freedom
Der grösste Hass ist, wie die grösste Tugend und die schlimmsten Hunde, still. The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent.— filed under Hatred
Der Mensch hat hier dritthalb Minuten, eine zu lächeln-eine zu seufzen-und eine halbe zu lieben: denn mitten in dieser Minute stirbt er. Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.— filed under Life
Die Parzen und Furien ziehen auch mit verbundnen Händen um das Leben, wie die Grazien und die Sirenen. The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.— filed under Life
Die Rose blüht nicht ohne Dornen. Ja: wenn nur aber nicht die Dornen die Rose überlebten. The rose does not bloom without thorns. True: but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.— filed under Life
Nur Thaten geben dem Leben Stärke, nur Mass ihm Reiz. Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.— filed under Life
Ach die Zeiten der Liebe rollen nicht zurück, sondern ewig weiter hinab. Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.— filed under Love
Die Liebe vermindert die weibliche Feinheit und verstärkt die männliche. Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. C.— filed under Love
Ein liebendes Mädchen wird unbewusst kühner. A. loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.— filed under Love
Wenn jemand bescheiden bleibt, nicht beim Lobe, sondern beim Tadel, dann ist er's. When one remains modest not after praise but after blame, then is he really so.— filed under Modesty
March 23, 1829. Musik ist Poesie der Luft. Music is the poetry of the air.— filed under Music
Sie zog tief in sein Herz, wie die Melodie eines Liedes, die aus der Kindheit heraufklingt. It sank deep into his heart, like the melody of a song sounding from out of childhood's days.— filed under Music
Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt. He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power.— filed under Secrecy
3. 17. Die Leiden sind wie die Gewitterwolken; in der Ferne sehen sie schwarz aus, über uns kaum grau. Sorrows are like thunderclouds in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.— filed under Sorrow
Man lernt Verschwiegenheit am meisten unter Menschen, die Keine haben-und Plauderhaftigheit unter Verschwiegenen. One learns taciturnity best among people who have none, and loquacity among the taciturn.— filed under Speech
Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergötzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas. For variety of mere nothings gives more . pleasure than uniformity of something.— filed under Variety
Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglättet sind. Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.— filed under Ciii
Das Alter ist nicht trübe weil darin unsere Freuden, sondern weil unsere Hoffnungen aufhören. What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys but that our hopes cease.— filed under Modern Foreign Languages
Individualität ist überall zu schonen und zu ehren als Wurzel jedes Guten. Individuality is everywhere to be guarded and honored as the root of all good.— filed under Bonaparte
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre. If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. Attributed to RICHELIEU. Gute Menschen können sich leichter in schlimme hineindenken als diese in jene. Good men can more easily see through bad men than the latter can the former.— filed under Discernment
Préface Ein Gelehrter hat keine Langeweile. A scholar knows no ennui.— filed under Motte
Niemand wird tiefer traurig als wer zu viel lächelt. No one will be more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.— filed under Chamfort
Denn wenn sich Jemand versteckt erklärt, so ist Nichts unhöflicher als eine nene Frage. For when any one explains himself guardedly, nothing is more uncivil than to put a new question.— filed under Questions
Anger. Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart: grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees.— filed under Anger
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.— filed under Enjoyment
Window. A man should always allow his fears to rise to their highest possible pitch, and then some consolation or other will suddenly fall, like a warm rain-drop, upon his heart.— filed under Fear
After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly.— filed under Pope
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 or sustained by the Spirit of the universe, but growing in its grave; and he mourns, until he himself crumbles away from the dead body.— filed under Religion
A sky full of silent suns.— filed under Stars
New. Afternoon. Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.— filed under Twilight
A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice that I am acquainted with.— filed under Woman
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