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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
Attention
Flattery
Perpetual
Silent
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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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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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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 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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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 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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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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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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