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Sophie Swetchine on Birthday

d. 1857

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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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