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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol

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
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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Himself Young
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
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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Character Humble Journey Myself Nature Path Selfish
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
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
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Blessing Soil
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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Be Yourself Confidence Myself Original
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
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
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
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Card Equality Gamble Game Greatness
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
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Lost Word Writing
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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Attachment Feeling Man Word
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
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
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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Emotional Harsh Human Journey Yourself Youth
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

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