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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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Golden
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Shower
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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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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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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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