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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
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Kindness
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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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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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