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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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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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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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