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A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
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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Philosopher
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City of Zurich
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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.
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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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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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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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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.
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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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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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He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
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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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He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
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