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Sophie Swetchine Quotes

d. 1857

Anne Sophie Swetchine (November 22, 1782–1857), known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic who converted to Catholicism in 1815 and as a result was forced to emigrate to Paris.

Also known as: Madame Swetchine

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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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Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

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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.

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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.

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