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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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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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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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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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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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