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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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
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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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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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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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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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 most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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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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