Sophie Swetchine Quotes

Anne Sophie Swetchine , known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. November 1782 – 10. September 1857
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Famous Sophie Swetchine Quotes

“Youth should be a savings-bank.”

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 921-24.

“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others”

Source: Reported in, "Transform Your Life: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Becoming the Person You Want to Be" by Penny Ferguson, p. 167.

“The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 622.

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

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.

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