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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
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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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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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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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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.
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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.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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