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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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Men
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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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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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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