Sophie Swetchine Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Ambition, Character, Mark

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• We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

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  Expectations, Prepared

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• We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

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  Character, Men, Judging

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• There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

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  Memories, Lost, Steadfast

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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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• 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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• When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

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  Sorrow, Complaining, Income

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

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  Inferiority, Flattery, Dangerous

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

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  Vanity, Enemy, Dignity

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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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• 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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  Health, Men, Roots

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

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  Artist, Poetry, Childhood

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• The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

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  Mind, Might, Limits

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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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• Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

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  Grief, Humility, Pride

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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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  Party, Political, Doe

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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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• 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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• It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

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  Littles, Flow, Moderation

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