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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
Lost
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Insensibly
Nightfall
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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