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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Virtue
Happiness
Hands
Together
Clasp
Walk
Walks
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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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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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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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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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 mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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 are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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