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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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