"I saw that I'd get nowhere on the……" — Nikolai Gogol
"I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter."
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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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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal- at cards.
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More Crookedly Quotes
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one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling…
— James Russell Lowell
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The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly…
— Amy Carmichael
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Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.” “I…
— Cassandra Clare
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It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Welcome to the Amity compound,' says Johanna. Her eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. 'Let us take…
— Veronica Roth
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I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall…
— Mathias Malzieu
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Wills voice dropped. Everyone makes mistakes, Jem. Yes, said Jem. You just make more of them than most people. I…
— Cassandra Clare
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