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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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Walk
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Happiness
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Together
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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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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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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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