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.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThe 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.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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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.
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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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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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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