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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.
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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Christian
Master
Death
Touch
Ends
Picture
Great
Masters
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Justification
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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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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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