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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
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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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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The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
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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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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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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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By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
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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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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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Indulgence is lovely in the sinless toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
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If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
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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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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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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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Time is the shower of Danae each drop is golden.
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The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.
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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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Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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