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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.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
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City of Zurich
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Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.
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He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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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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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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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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He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
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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.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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