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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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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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To reveal imprudently the spot where we are most sensitive and vulnerable is to invite a blow. The demigod Achilles admitted no one to his confidence.
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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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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
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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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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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