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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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
Theologian
Writer
City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
j. c. lavater
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Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
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Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
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True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
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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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The conscience is more wise than science.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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Defeat serves to enlighten us.
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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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What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.
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Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
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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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The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
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He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.
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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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Good-humor is always a success.
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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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Who is fatal to others is so to himself.
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