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Sophie Swetchine Inspirational Quotes (71)

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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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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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