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A great passion has no partner.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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Philosopher
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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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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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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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 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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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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He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.
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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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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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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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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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