Sophie Swetchine

There is a transcendent power in example.

— Sophie Swetchine

What I value most next to eternity is time.

— Sophie Swetchine

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

— Sophie Swetchine

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

— Sophie Swetchine

Youth should be a savings bank.

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God has prohibited despair.

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We are rich only through what we give.

— Sophie Swetchine

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

— Sophie Swetchine

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— Sophie Swetchine

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

— Sophie Swetchine

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

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The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

— Sophie Swetchine

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

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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.

— Sophie Swetchine

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that…

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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

— Sophie Swetchine

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

— Sophie Swetchine

If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all,…

— Sophie Swetchine

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty…

— Sophie Swetchine

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a…

— Sophie Swetchine

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

— Sophie Swetchine

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may…

— Sophie Swetchine

Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental…

— Sophie Swetchine

The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair:…

— Sophie Swetchine

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is…

— Sophie Swetchine

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense.…

— Sophie Swetchine

A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual,…

— Sophie Swetchine

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins…

— Sophie Swetchine

Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its…

— Sophie Swetchine

The law of common sense.

— Sophie Swetchine

Feeling loves a subdued light.

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Piety softens all that courage bears.

— Sophie Swetchine

The heart has always the pardoning power.

— Sophie Swetchine

Repentance is accepted remorse.

— Sophie Swetchine

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.

— Sophie Swetchine

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

— Sophie Swetchine