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People read every thing nowadays, except books.
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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Every
People
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Read
Book
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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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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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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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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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We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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There is a transcendent power in example.
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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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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with 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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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
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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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There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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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.
Sophie Swetchine
What I value most next to eternity is time.
Sophie Swetchine
To have ideas is to gather flowers to think is to weave them into garlands.
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