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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

Nikolai Gogol

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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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
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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Famine Poverty Suffering Time Willing
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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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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Exploration Himself Oneself Reason Search Wisdom
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking

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