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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
Mind
Reveals
Intellect
Limits
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Human
Humans
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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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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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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