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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
Historian
Prophet
Often
Experience
Others
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Prophets
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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 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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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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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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