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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
Expectations
Expect
Prepared
Everything
Nothing
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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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 are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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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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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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