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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
Chains
Least
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Cramps
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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