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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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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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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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 chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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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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