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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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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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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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