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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
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Suffering
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Calm
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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