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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLBut 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.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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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.
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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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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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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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 saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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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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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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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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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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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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