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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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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Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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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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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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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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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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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
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If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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