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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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Mindfulness
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Master
Masters
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Soul
Mind
Valet
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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