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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.

Nikolai Gogol

There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
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Chase Myself Start View Warning
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
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
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
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
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Future Graduation Life Preparation Youth
I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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Bribe Different Kind Matter Plain
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
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Achievement Contrary Power Work
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
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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Education Himself Known Learning Prosperous Thinking
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
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
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See

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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