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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
Harm
Liberty
Doe
Culpable
Excesses
Excess
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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