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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
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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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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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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