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Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — Sophie Swetchine

d. 1857

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The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

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Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.

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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.

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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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As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

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God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, “I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.”

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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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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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We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

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We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

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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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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.

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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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It must be conceded that, after affection, habit has its peculiar value. It is a little stream which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

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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.

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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.

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Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sophie Swetchine (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.