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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.
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
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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