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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.
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
Reflect
Individuality
Tend
Thought
Might
Efface
Everything
Lineaments
Shun
Primitive
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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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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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.
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