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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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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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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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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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 do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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