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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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