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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing 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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