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Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Maxim Gorky

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Art Cultivation Force Influence Man Science Success
Every new time will give its law.
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Law One Liner Time
What I’d like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: “Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
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Better Born Live Man Thankful Yourself
The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth.
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Goal Myself Person Pursue Society Truth
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
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Art Goodness Quality Soul Success
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
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Easy Oneself Quick Stupidity
Truth doesn’t always heal a wounded soul.
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Healing Soul Truth Wound
Only mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their children.
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Born Children Future Mom Thinking
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I’ve even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
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Earth Heaven People Pilgrimage
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
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Delight Ourselves Salvation Work
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.
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Blood Drown Sea Truth
When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
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Day Jump Marriage Remember Woman Yourself
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn’t marry a girl of twenty.
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Age Count Marriage
In the carriages of the past, you can’t go anywhere.
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Carriage Past Yourself
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
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Book Credit Goodness Myself
When one loves somebody, everything is clear – where to go, what to do – it all takes care of itself and one doesn’t have to ask anybody about anything.
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Care Love Oneself

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

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