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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.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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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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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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