Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
Sophie Swetchine
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Historians
Prophets
Historian
Prophet
Often
Experience
Others
More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
There is a transcendent power in example.
Sophie Swetchine
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
Sophie Swetchine
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
Sophie Swetchine
The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
Piety softens all that courage bears.
Sophie Swetchine
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
