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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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 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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
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