"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be……" — Nikolai Gogol
"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."
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Nikolai Gogol
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54 Quotes by Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol has 54 quotes on this site.
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Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes?
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Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as…
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Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he…
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than…
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more…
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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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…
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful…
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The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right…
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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is…
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never…
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This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the…
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Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God,…
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With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it…
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Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is…
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From its aptly noirish title on, Martin Preib's The Wagon has rightness of authenticity about it. From the perspective of…
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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author…
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What Bell is to the telephone—or, more aptly, what Eastman is to photography—Haloid could be to xerography.
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Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what…
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