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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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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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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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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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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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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
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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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No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
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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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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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