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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
Loves
Feeling
Feelings
Light
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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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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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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