Sophie Swetchine Quotes - Page 4

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• The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

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  Love, Cold, Dare

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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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  Daughter, Children, Tears

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• Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

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  Friendship, Unhappy, Asylums

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• Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.

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  Men, Divine, Misfortunes

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• God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

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  Ignorant, Faults, Certain

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• True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

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  Artist, Poetry, Childhood

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• My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

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  Death, Love Is, Inspire

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• Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

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  Law, Practice, Common Sense

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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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  Pride, Destiny, Men

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• The law of common sense.

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  Law, Common Sense, Common

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• People read every thing nowadays, except books.

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  Book, Reading, People

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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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  Grief, Joy, Veils

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• One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

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  Enemy, Force

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• Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

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  Men, Perfection, Chimera

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• There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

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  Germs, Action

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• Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

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  Vanity, Enemy, Dignity

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• Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

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  Faith, Life Is Like, Lamps

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• The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

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  Inferiority, Flattery, Dangerous

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• There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

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  Encouraging, Perseverance, Power

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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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  Soul, Return, Indifference

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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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  Individuality, Might, Primitive

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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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  Prayer, Speech, Hours

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• If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

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  Pride, Would Be, Remember

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• Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

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  Economy

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• The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

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  God, Christian, Grief

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