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| Johann Kaspar Lavater
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. 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. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. 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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