A man who’s active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what’s known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
ALEXANDER PUSHKINUnrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Habit is Heaven’s own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
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With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
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Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
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Tis time, my friend, ’tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it’s raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
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My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
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Cabbage soup and barley. They’re Russia’s national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
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In this, our age of infamy Man’s choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
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