But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
NIKOLAI GOGOLThere are passions that it is not for man to choose.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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I am who I am and that’s who I am.
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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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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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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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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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.
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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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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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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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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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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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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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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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