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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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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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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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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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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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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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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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