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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
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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