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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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing 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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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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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 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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