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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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Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.
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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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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 most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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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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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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When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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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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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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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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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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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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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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