Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — Sophie Swetchine
d. 1857
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Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
The heart has always the pardoning power.
How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success!
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
There is nothing at all in life except what we put there.
Time is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing.
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend’s superiority has ceased to love him.
In this world of change, nought which comes stays, and nought which goes is last.
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.
Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.
The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.
The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sophie Swetchine (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.