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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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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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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with 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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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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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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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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