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There is a transcendent power in example.
Sophie Swetchine
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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
Example
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Transcendent
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Sophie Swetchine
People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
Sophie Swetchine
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
Sophie Swetchine
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?
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