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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Nikolai Gogol

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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Age Agriculture Basis Experience Ideas Myself
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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Beautiful Perspective Thinking Willing
Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Home Yourself
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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
it’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
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Art Discussion Home Image Job Life Preach
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Emotion Existence Lyrics Rank Worth
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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Desire Emotion Feeling Greatness Himself Man Obedient Shame Terrible
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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Dreams Himself Life Sleep Strange Wake Up
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity

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