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I love victory, but I love not triumph.

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
Triumph
Victory
Love

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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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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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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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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 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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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