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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
Forget
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Many
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Kindness
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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