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As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.
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 countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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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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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.
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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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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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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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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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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 loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
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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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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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