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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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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.
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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.
Sophie Swetchine
Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.
Sophie Swetchine
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Sophie Swetchine
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.
Sophie Swetchine
Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.
Sophie Swetchine
By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.
Sophie Swetchine
Piety softens all that courage bears.
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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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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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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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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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Youth should be a savings bank.
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We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it and we--we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.
Sophie Swetchine
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.
Sophie Swetchine
Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.
Sophie Swetchine
