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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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
Flattery
Perpetual
Silent
Attention
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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