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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
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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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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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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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