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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
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Attention
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is 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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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