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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
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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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