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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
Golden
Time
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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