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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
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
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More quotes by Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
Sophie Swetchine
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.
Sophie Swetchine
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Sophie Swetchine
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
Sophie Swetchine
There is a transcendent power in example.
Sophie Swetchine
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
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.
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A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
Sophie Swetchine
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.
Sophie Swetchine
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.
Sophie Swetchine
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.
Sophie Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Sophie Swetchine
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
Sophie Swetchine
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
Sophie Swetchine
Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
Sophie Swetchine
