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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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Soul
Mind
Valet
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Mindfulness
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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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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 deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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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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