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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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Political
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May
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Belong
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Sure
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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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What I value most next to eternity is time.
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Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.
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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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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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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 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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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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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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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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The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
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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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Piety softens all that courage bears.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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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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