Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Tend
Thought
Might
Efface
Everything
Lineaments
Shun
Primitive
Reflect
Individuality

More quotes by Sophie Swetchine

Image
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
Image
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
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
Image
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
There is a transcendent power in example.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
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
Image
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Sophie Swetchine
Image
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Sophie Swetchine