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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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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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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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