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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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
Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Loudness is impotence.
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To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.
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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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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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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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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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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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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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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 wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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