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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Softens
Piety
Bears
Courage
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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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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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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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.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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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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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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