In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts. - Sophie Swetchine
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
- Sophie Swetchine
To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. - Sophie Swetchine
To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. - Sophie Swetchine
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. - Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late. - Sophie Swetchine
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there. - Sophie Swetchine
There is nothing at all in life, except what we put there.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. - Sophie Swetchine
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose. - Sophie Swetchine
In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.
We are rich only through what we give. - Sophie Swetchine
We are rich only through what we give.
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