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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
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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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Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
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It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
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Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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A great passion has no partner.
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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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 generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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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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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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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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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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