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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
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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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Conscience is wiser than science.
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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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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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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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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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Women are proverbially credulous.
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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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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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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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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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