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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
Harmonies
Beauties
Harmony
Creation
Age
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Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?
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We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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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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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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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
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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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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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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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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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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