Nikolai Gogol Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Nikolai Gogol:
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.
~Nikolai Gogol
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
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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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Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
~Nikolai Gogol
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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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It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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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 Gogol
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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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Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
~Nikolai Gogol
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Russia! Russia... Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker's gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
~Nikolai Gogol
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