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Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
Illustrator
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Philosopher
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Theologian
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City of Zurich
Johann Caspar Lavater
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Half talent is no talent.
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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
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Words are the wings of actions.
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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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The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.
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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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