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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
Light
Subdued
Sensibility
Loves
Feeling
Feelings
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
Sophie Swetchine
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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 best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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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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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
Sophie Swetchine
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Sophie Swetchine
