The only true method of ...

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

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
 Sophie Swetchine
Repentance is accepted remorse.
 Sophie Swetchine
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.
 Sophie Swetchine
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
 Sophie Swetchine
To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
 Sophie Swetchine