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A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
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The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.
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Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.
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Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
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Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.
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Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.
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Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.
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Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
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Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
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The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Born:
November 15, 1741
Died:
January 2, 1801
(aged 59)
Bio:
Johann Kaspar Lavater was a Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian.
Known for:
Essays on physiognomy (1789)
Aphorisms on man
Physiognomy
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