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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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
Resignation
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Grief
Self
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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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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