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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.
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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Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.
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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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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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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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The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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The conscience is more wise than science.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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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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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you and then show your copy to whom you please.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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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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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
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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.
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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.
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