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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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
Suffering
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May
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Men
Pride
Shall
Dies
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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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.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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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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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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