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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
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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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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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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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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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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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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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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 love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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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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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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