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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
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Misfortune
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Men
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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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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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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 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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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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