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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.
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
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Benevolence
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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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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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