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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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