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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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Power
Transcendent

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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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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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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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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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