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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.
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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Poverty
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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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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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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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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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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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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