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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
Ideas
Think
Thinking
Garlands
Weave
Gather
Flowers
Flower
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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