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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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
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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
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The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too most of the weak are false.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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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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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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 whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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