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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.
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
Like
Sorrow
Pure
Grows
Age
Darker
Faith
Revelations
Left
Till
Light
Solitude
Life
Shining
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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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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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