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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
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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 deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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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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