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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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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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