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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

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
Charm
Hidden
Dare
Challenges
Grapple
Difficult
Undertakings
Appreciated
Providence
Perseverance

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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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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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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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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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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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