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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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