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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
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Silence
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Insensibly
Nightfall
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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