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Johann Kaspar Lavater Inspirational Quotes (147)

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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed nature never pretends.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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Who is open without levity generous without waste secret without craft humble without meanness bold without insolence cautious without anxiety regular, yet not formal mild, yet not timid firm, yet not tyrannical - is made to pass the ordeal of honour, friendship, virtue.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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