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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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.
Sophie Swetchine
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
Sophie Swetchine
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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