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Youth should be a savings bank.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Youth
Savings
Bank
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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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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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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