Madame Swetchine
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Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) was a Russian mystic.
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- 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.
- 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.
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- The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.