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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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Masters
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Soul
Mind
Valet
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Mindfulness
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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