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Famous Sophie Swetchine Quotes
“There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.”
“We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.”
“We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.”
“Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.”
“The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.”
“The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.”
“We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.”
“Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.”
“Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.”
“The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.”
“It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.”
“We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.”
“There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
“America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.”
“We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.”
“My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.”
“Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.”
“He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.”
“I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.”
“Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.”
“The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.”
“Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.”
“True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.”
“If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.”