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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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
Fancy
Weakness
Strength
Support
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Needs
Deceive
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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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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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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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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