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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
Age
Darker
Faith
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Till
Light
Solitude
Life
Shining
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Sorrow
Pure
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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