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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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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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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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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