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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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