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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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
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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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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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