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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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