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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

~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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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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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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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

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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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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

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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?

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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.

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Sometimes, it is enough for us to hold out a hand to receive help. It is not we who help; God helps, granting His power to the powerless word.

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Writer

Born: March 31st, 1809

Died: March 4th, 1852

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