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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Subdued
Sensibility
Loves
Feeling
Feelings
Light
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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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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