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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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 chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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