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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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