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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.
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
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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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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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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