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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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Softens
Piety
Bears
Courage
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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