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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
Honor
Respect
Serious
Feeling
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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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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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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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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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.
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