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Nikolai Gogol [1809-1852] Russian

Rank: 101
Writer, Dramatist

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer whose work was strongly influenced by Ukrainian culture.

Beauty, Communication, Good, Inspirational, Moving On, Wisdom

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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.	Good	101
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.	Beauty	102
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.	Moving On	103
Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.		104
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.		105
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.	Inspirational	106
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.	Communication	107
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.		108
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.		109
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.	Wisdom	110
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.		111
The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.		112
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.		113
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?		114
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.		115

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