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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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
Flower
Ideas
Think
Thinking
Garlands
Weave
Gather
Flowers
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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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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 I value most next to eternity is time.
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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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