Sophie Swetchine Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sophie Swetchine
Sophie Swetchine Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.
Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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.
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die.
When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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.
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.