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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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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 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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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