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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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When any one tells you that he belongs to no party, you may at any rate be sure that he does not belong to yours.
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