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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.
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
Writer
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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Sure
Party
Political
Doe
May
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Belong
Tells
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Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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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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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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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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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.
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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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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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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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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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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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To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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