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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
Flattery
Perpetual
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Attention
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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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