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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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
Direction
Loving
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Others
Love
Memorable
Romantic
Deeply
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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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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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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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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