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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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
Limits
Might
Human
Humans
Mind
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Intellect
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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