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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.
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
Deserve
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Tears
Reminder
Pride
Reminders
Suffering
Suffer
Else
Calm
Nothing
Anger
Calms
Grief
Dries
Humility
Vexation
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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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All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.
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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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