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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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.
Sophie Swetchine
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
Sophie Swetchine
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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