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Sophie Swetchine Inspirational Quotes (71)

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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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