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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
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Golden
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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 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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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