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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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
Wells
Well
Dupes
Credulity
Suspicion
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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Youth should be a savings bank.
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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.
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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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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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