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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
Excess
Harm
Liberty
Doe
Culpable
Excesses
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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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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.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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