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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?
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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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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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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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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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