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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Triumph
Victory
Love
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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
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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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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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 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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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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