Sophie Swetchine
Sophie Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine, known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryRussian Federation
grief self resignation
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
love dust evil
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
love heart reflection
Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.
compassion gun people
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
saving youth should
Youth should be a savings bank.
pride would-be remember
If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.
bears piety
Piety softens all that courage bears.
littles flow moderation
It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.
change world lost
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.