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My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.


Charles Francis Richter

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JEAN PAUL RICHTER Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugel...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A farewell is necessary before we can meet again, and meeting again, after moments or a lifetime is ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER A sky full of silent suns.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER When one remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then is he really so. [Ger., Wenn jema...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Versch...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Night was drawing and closing her curtain up above the world, and down beneath it.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. -Jean Pa...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive
JEAN PAUL RICHTER The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, is silent. [Ger., Der grosste H...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, ...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to b...
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