Madame Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine was a Russian mystic.
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- 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.