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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
Appreciated
Providence
Perseverance
Charm
Hidden
Dare
Challenges
Grapple
Difficult
Undertakings

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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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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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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 is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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 symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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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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