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What I value most next to eternity is 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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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