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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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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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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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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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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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There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: I shall suffer, and I shall die.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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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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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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