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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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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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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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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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The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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