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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
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Think
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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