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Nikolai Gogol Quotes

Russian - Writer | March 31, 1809 - March 4, 1852

Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.

Attention Body Place Earth Nothing

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Wisdom Me Start You Bread Without

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Beauty Beautiful Think Will Always

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Communication Words Man Others Than

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

Soil Lord May Grant

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Same Profitable Course Most Thing

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.

Character Man Wise Look Searching

Sometimes, it is enough for us to hold out a hand to receive help. It is not we who help; God helps, granting His power to the powerless word.

God Power Enough Help Sometimes Out

I ask everyone in Russia to pray for me, beginning with the bishops, whose whole life is a single prayer. I ask prayers also of those who humbly do not believe in the efficacy of their prayers, as well as of those who do not believe in prayer at all and even consider it useless.

Life Prayer Beginning Me Believe

I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.

Soul I Am Mind Nothing Duty Will

The higher truths are, the more cautious one must be with them; otherwise, they are converted into common things, and common things are not believed.

More Things Common Must Cautious

Atheists have not produced so much evil as hypocrites have produced, or even simply those who preached God without being prepared for Him, daring to pronounce His name with unsanctified lips.

God Evil Name Lips Him Without

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