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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
Saving
Youth
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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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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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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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