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Attributed quotes — Sophie Swetchine

d. 1857

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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers. To think is to weave them into garlands.

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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

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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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Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,—a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

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I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we—we divine it.

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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

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There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

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