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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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