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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
Transcendent
Example
Power

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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.
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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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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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