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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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Misfortune
Misfortunes
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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