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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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Unconsciously
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Walks
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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 deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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