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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
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Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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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 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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In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.
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Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.
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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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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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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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.
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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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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 deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
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Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
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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 very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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