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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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
Unhappiness
Unhappy
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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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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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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