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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

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
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
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Man Reading Sanity Thinking Truth
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
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Bad Better Book Goodness Man
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
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Drive Organism Revolution Skin
Every new time will give its law.
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Law One Liner Time
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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Devastation Evidence Man Root
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
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Enemy Mercy Ourselves Past
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
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Book Learning Reading Remember Yourself
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.
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Class Force Growth Intellectual
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Charity Goodness Humanity Kindness Sorry Wrong
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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Life Pleasure Responsibility Slave Work
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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Brother Himself Live Money Person
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Past Yourself
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
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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Beautiful Dreams Unknown Vision World
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

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

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Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

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