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Consolation heaps without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.
— Sophie Swetchine
The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
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The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
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The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
— 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.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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The heart has always the pardoning power.
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It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.
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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.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Poor humanity!so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great. — Sophie Swetchine
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
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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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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.
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Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
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Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
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I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.
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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
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Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
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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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There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
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Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.
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One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and wewe divine it. — Sophie Swetchine
God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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.
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In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.
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The law of common sense.
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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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As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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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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There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.
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There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
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Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.
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Repentance is accepted remorse.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
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We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
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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.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
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He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.
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My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Miracles are God's coups d'etat.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.
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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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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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