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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
Difficult
Undertakings
Appreciated
Providence
Perseverance
Charm
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Dare
Challenges
Grapple
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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