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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
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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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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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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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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