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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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
Least
Cramp
Cramps
Weigh
Chains
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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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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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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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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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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