Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes

• Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Motivational, Evil, Force

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• There's time enough, but none to spare.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Time, Time Management, Enough

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.240, Xist Publishing

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• We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Littles, Underestimate, Influence

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• Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Race, Justice, Diversity

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.143, Xist Publishing

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• Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Attitude, Wish, Happens

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.17, Xist Publishing

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• As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Real, Men, Dust

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Roots, Self, African American

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.382, Penguin

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• We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

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  Fate, Destiny, Hands

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Steel, Band, Sin

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• Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Home, Godly, Sin

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.176, Xist Publishing

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• Time touches all things with a destroying hand.

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  Hands, Destroying, All Things

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2012). “The House Behind the Cedars”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

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  Soul, Imagine, Drink

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2012). “The House Behind the Cedars”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Love, Hate, Heart

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.170, Xist Publishing

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• The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Heart, Mystery, Humans

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.377, Penguin

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