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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.
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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Infinite
Life
Limits
Seem
Sides
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Knowledge
Constrain
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Sorrows
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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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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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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