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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
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Virtue
Happiness
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Clasp
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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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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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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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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
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 deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
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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