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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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