Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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• We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

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  Reform, Walks, Reformation

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• There is a transcendent power in example.

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  Example, Transcendent

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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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  Honesty, Years, Youth

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• Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

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  Humanity, Poor, Dependent

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• We are rich only through what we give.

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  Giving, Greed, Rich

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

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  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

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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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  Self, World, Opinion

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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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  World, Action, Method

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 622), 1895.

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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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  God, Action, Forget

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• There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.

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  Life

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• There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

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  Distance, Procrastination, Grace

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• We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.

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  Apples, One Day, World

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• Youth should be a savings bank.

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  Saving, Youth, Should

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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

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  Kindness, Learning, Causes

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• As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

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  Pain, Circles, Age

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• A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.

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  Friendship, Passion, Three

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• There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

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  Eye, Errors, Views

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• Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.

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  Love, Dust, Evil

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• The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

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  Cute, Friendship, Two

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• In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

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  Grief, Winter, Youth

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• The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

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  Cramps, Chains

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• When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

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  Pieces, Riches, Silver

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• There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.

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  Enough, Neglect, Good Things

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• If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Ifs

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• Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

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  Mean, Errors, Race

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