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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
«The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Deed,
Words
| Keywords:
approbation
«Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is respelled by it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
cunningly, deceives, meanest, shrewdest
«Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
Human heart, injunction, injunctions, seated, violating
«The first glass you drive in like a stake, the second flies like a crake, and after the third they fly like wee little birds.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
crake, drive in, stake, The Wee, wee, you-drive
«There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
divinity, indubitable, manifestation
«I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of thegreatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and mostobvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsityof conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
at ease, conclusions, delighted, falsities, falsity, simplest
