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«He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
loquacious, timed, well timed
«Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Intuition
| Keywords:
at once, conception, intuition
«Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity»
«Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.»
«To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
set down, statement, true statement
«Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything»
«He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Enemies
| Keywords:
enjoyments, forgiven, sublime, tasted
«He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Reform
| Keywords:
impotent, noisy, patriots, reforming, reforms
«Great minds comprehend more in a word, a look, a pressure of the hand than ordinary men in long conversations, or the most elaborate correspondence»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
comprehend, conversations, correspondence, Correspondences, elaborate, elaborated, pressure
«Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.»
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