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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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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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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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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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