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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
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Learning
Causes
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Kindness
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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