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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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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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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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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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Words are the wings of actions.
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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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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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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Malice is poisoned by her own venom.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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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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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
