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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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
Age
Harmonies
Beauties
Harmony
Creation
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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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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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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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
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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 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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
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