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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
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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