Nikolay Chernyshevsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
-- Nikolay Chernyshevsky

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Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
-- Nikolay Chernyshevsky

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In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.
-- Nikolay Chernyshevsky

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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.
Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.
He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a virgin, Eva. I'm going to try real hard not to hurt you." "Will it hurt you?" I asked, thinking about his pained expression when he'd said I was too tight. He smiled, "It's going to be the closest to heaven I'll ever get, baby.
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky famous quotes

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