German - Theologian | November 15, 1741 - January 2, 1801
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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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 public seldom forgive twice.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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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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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
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