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Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Age: 66 †
Born: 1728
Born: December 8
Died: 1795
Died: October 7
Botanist
Physician
Writer
Brugg AG
J.G.Zimm.
Johann Georg Zimmermann
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Opinion
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Many
Unsocial
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Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.
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Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.
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Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
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Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.
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In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
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Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.
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All our distinctions ire accidental beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.
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Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.
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The ill usage of every minute is a new record against us in heaven.
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Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.
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Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
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Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.
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Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties the sluggard is a living insensible.
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Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
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By fools, knaves fatten by bigots, priests are well clothed every knave finds a gull.
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Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.
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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
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Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.
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