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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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Expectations
Expect
Prepared
Everything
Nothing
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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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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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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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