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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
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
J. C. Lavater
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The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold.
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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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Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
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He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
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Women are proverbially credulous.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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Loudness is impotence.
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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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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
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Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
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The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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Every man has his devilish minutes.
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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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