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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.
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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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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All finery is a sign of littleness.
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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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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
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Conscience is wiser than science.
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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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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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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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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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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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As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.
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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 seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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