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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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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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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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 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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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 deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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