There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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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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You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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