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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
Cramp
Cramps
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Chains
Least
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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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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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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