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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
Thinking
Garlands
Weave
Gather
Flowers
Flower
Ideas
Think
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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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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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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 recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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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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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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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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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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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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