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Defeat serves to enlighten us....

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

Take here the grand secret; if...

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

There are three classes of men...

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

All belief that does not make ...

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

He who purposely cheats his fr...

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

God protects those he loves fr...

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

When you doubt between words, ...

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

The generous person is always ...

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

Him, who incessantly laughs in...

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

The great rule of moral conduc...

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

Neatness begets order; but fro...

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 277 quotes

To know yourself you have only...

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

You may depend upon it that he...

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

If you see one cold and veheme...

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

He who sedulously attends, poi...

He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

How few our real wants, and ho...

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

He submits himself to be seen ...

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

The enemy of art is the enemy ...

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human?

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

He who comes from the kitchen,...

He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

Loudness is impotence....

Loudness is impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater 277 quotes

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