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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
Intellect
Limits
Might
Human
Humans
Mind
Reveals
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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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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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 most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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