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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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
Everything
Nothing
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Prepared
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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 love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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