Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWhatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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