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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.

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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A gift--its kind, its value and appearance the silence or the pomp that attends it the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
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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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The conscience is more wise than science.
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The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.
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Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
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Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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Decided ends are sure signs of a decided character.
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In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.
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The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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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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