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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
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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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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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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