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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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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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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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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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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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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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