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But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Nikolai Gogol

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Body Depend Soul
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
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
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
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
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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Death Murmur Myself Show Tears
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
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 fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Fate Hero Journey Life Myself Unknown
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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Authority Destruction Town
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Pause Perfection World
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
I shall laugh my bitter laugh.
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Bitter Laughter Myself
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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