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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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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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