"A deception that elevates us is dearer than……" — Alexander Pushkin
"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."
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Alexander Pushkin
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31 Quotes by Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin has 31 quotes on this site.
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
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Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a…
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My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
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Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody…
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I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let…
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It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment…
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want…
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It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
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I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms…
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Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
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In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has…
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More Dearer Quotes
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one of 79 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty
— William Shakespeare
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
— Woodrow Wilson
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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
— Unknown Author
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It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my…
— William Shakespeare
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There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who…
— Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
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When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to…
— Muhammad
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