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A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

Nikolai Gogol

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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.
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Count Human Master Passion Sea Terrible
We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Gift Insignificant Magic Miracle Perspective Power
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
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
Sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
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Activity Brain Fortunate Trouble
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
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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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Man is such a wondrous being that it is never possible to count up all his merits at once. The more you study him, the more new particulars appear, and their description would be endless.
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Appearance Count Description End Man Wonder
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
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
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
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Book Enjoyment Live Nature Peace Pleasant Reading Solitude
You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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Grown Imagination Stupidity Yourself
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
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Care Focus Funny Sadness
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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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God Man Respect Thankful 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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Flash Joy Life Past Sorrow
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
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

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