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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 Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
Sophie Swetchine
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sophie Swetchine
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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