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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Unconsciously
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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 mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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 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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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