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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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
Prophets
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Often
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Others
Historians
More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
Sophie Swetchine
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
Sophie Swetchine
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
Sophie Swetchine
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
Sophie Swetchine
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Sophie Swetchine
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Sophie Swetchine
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?
Sophie Swetchine
I love victory, but I love not triumph.
Sophie Swetchine
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
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
Sophie Swetchine
We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
People read every thing nowadays, except books.
Sophie Swetchine
Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
Sophie Swetchine
