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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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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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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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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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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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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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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