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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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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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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 very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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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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