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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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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
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Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Dress is an index of your contents.
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Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.
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Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
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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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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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The immoderate cannot laugh moderately.
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She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man
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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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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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