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Sophie Swetchine Inspirational Quotes (71)

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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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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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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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