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Thinkers are as scarce as gold.
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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Thinkers
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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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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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
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Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons malice only seeks causes.
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Softness of smile indicates softness of character.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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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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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
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He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
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Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
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The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.
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Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.
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And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
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Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
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True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.
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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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Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
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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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