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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Self
Resignation
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Grief
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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