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“We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Reform #Walks
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“There is a transcendent power in example.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Example
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“The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Cramps #Chains
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“In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Years #Youth #Aging
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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.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Happiness #Art #Sick
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“We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Character #Men #Judging
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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.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Individuality #Might #Primitive
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“Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Believe #Heart #Adorable
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“My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Death #Love Is #Inspire
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“The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Men #Justice #Injustice
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“It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Flow #Littles #Moderation
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“Piety softens all that courage bears.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Bears #Piety
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“We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Reason #Labor #Piety
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“If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Pride #Would Be #Remember
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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.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Pride #Destiny #Men
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“There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Distance #Procrastination #Grace
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“When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Pieces #Riches #Silver
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“America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Careers #America #Age
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“Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Soul #Return #Indifference
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“Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Humanity #Poor #Insignificant
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“In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Grief #Winter #Youth
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“In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Healthy #States #Tendencies
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“Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Liberty #Rewards
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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.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Compassion #Gun #People
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“A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Enemy #Malicious
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“We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Heart #Intellect #Ennui
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“Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Mean #Errors #Race
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“We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Experience #Prophet #Historian
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“Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Faith #Life Is Like #Burning
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“The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.”
-- Sophie Swetchine
#Faith #Believe #Inventory
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