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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Subdued
Sensibility
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Feeling
Feelings
Light
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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 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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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