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The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Character, Giving, Giver

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Faith, Character, Giving

Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Class, Giving, Negative
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Smart, Giving, Biting

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Giving, Trifles
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Light, Giving, Wish
"Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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