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Johann Kaspar Lavater Inspirational Quotes (147)

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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.
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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.
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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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