Sophie Swetchine Quotes
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
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There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
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Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
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Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
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There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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