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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
Savings
Bank
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Youth
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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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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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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