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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
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Transcendent

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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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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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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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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.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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