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Olive Schreiner Quotes
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Type: Writer Quotes Category: South African Writer Quotes Date of Birth: March 24, 1855 Date of Death: December 11, 1920 Nationality: South African Find on Amazon: Olive Schreiner Related Authors: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Mason Cooley Voltaire H. L. Mencken Gilbert K. Chesterton Eric Hoffer Bill James Jeff Long |
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Olive Schreiner How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. Olive Schreiner It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand. Olive Schreiner Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is. Olive Schreiner No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. Olive Schreiner Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it. Olive Schreiner Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. Olive Schreiner There was never a great man who had not a great mother. Olive Schreiner We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep. Olive Schreiner |
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