The 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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLWe have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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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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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
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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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I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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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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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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