There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and the devil with a net.
Attributed quotes — Sophie Swetchine
d. 1857
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There is, by God’s grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
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Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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Consolation heals without contact; somewhat like the blessed air which we need but to breathe.
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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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How can that gift leave a trace which has left no void?
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.
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It is the enemy who keep the sentinel watchful.
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Poor humanity!—so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
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Silence is like nightfall; objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sophie Swetchine (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.