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Sophie Swetchine on Retirement

d. 1857

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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)

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

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.