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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Silent
Attention
Flattery
Perpetual
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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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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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 have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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