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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

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
Actions
Worth
Words
Action
Best
Much
Germ
Germs
Contain

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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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 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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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