Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

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I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at those which console.

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Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

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Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

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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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In the age in which we live, the impossible is every day losing ground.

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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands.

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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

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Those who appear cold, but are only timid, as soon as they dare to love, adore.

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By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others

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The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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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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There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and the devil with a net.

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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

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The most dangerous flattery is the inferiority of those who surround us.

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