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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Insensibly
Nightfall
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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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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