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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

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
Virtue
Happiness
Hands
Together
Clasp
Walk
Walks

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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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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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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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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.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
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