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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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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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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.
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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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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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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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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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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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