"It is no use to blame the looking……" — Nikolai Gogol
"It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry."
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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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Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And…
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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
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We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the…
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see…
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without…
— Walter Ulbricht
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When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son…
— Steve Camp
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To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry…
— Tony Clark
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When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
— Don Bluth
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The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.
— William Butler Yeats
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the…
— Marcel Proust
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We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.
— Rose McGowan
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