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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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 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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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