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 GOGOLMan 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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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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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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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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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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I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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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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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
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