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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
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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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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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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 grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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 chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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