Eugenie de Guerin Quotes

• My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  World, This World, Certainty

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.273

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• We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Christian, Wise, Journey

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.314

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• The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Wings, Feet, Soul

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Journal of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.15

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• A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Death, Blessed, Heart

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.73

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• Los errores del intelecto son fatales, aún más peligrosos que los del corazón.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Heart, Errors, Mind

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.61

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• Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.144

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• One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

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  Country, Mind, May

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.60

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• Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Carácter, Gente, Dar

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.137

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• Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Kings, Fall, Power

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.180

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• One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Fancy, One Love, Dies

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.312

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• Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Friends, Neglected, Comforter

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.407

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• Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Writing, Thinking, Solitude

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• in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

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  God, Tears, Duration

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.132

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• Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Pain, Fire, Giving

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.37

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• We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Family, Sake, Taste

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters of Eugénie de Guérin”, p.206

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• How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

  Eugenia de Guerin

  Años, Largos, Tres

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.8

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