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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Shower
Showers
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Time
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.
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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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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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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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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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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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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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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 reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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