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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.
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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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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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 ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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The public seldom forgive twice.
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Take here the grand secret if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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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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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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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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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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