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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
Bears
Courage
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Piety
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
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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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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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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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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