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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
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
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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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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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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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Thinkers are scarce as gold but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.
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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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The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.
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Half talent is no talent.
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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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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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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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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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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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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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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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He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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The enemy of art is the enemy of nature art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
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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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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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