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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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
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Hour
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Eternity
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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