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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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Garlands
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Gather
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Ideas
Think
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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