One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man.
MAXIM GORKYBe good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
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Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
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The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
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We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
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Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
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Jail doesn’t teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
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Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
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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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The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
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