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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Transcendent
Example
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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