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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
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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 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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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