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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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
Culpable
Excesses
Excess
Harm
Liberty
Doe
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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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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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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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