Sophie Swetchine Quotes - Page 4

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• We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

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  Heart, Intellect, Ennui

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• We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

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  Experience, Prophet, Historian

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• The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

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  Men, Justice Of God, Injustice

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• It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

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  Sorrow, Limits, Sides

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• The law of common sense.

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  Law, Common Sense, Common

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• The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

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  Faith, Believe, Inventory

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• A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.

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  Enemy, Malicious, Clumsy

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• Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.

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  Time, Golden, Showers

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• Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

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  Dupes, Suspicion, Wells

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• If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.

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  God, Looks, Earth

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• He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

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  Friends, Enjoy, Superiority

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• I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.

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  Simple, Childhood, Principles

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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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• 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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• Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

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  Real, Sorrow, Rays

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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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• People read every thing nowadays, except books.

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  Book, Reading, People

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• America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

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  Careers, America, Age

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• We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

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  Reason, Piety, Labor

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• Piety softens all that courage bears.

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  Bears, Piety

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

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  Economy

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• Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

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  Hands, Together, Virtue

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