Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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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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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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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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