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 PUSHKINTo 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.
More Alexander Pushkin Quotes
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Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
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Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.
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Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Please, never despise the translator. He’s the mailman of human civilization.
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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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As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
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I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)
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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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Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
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Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
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Thus people–so it seems to me– Become good friends from sheer ennui.
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Moscow, how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
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