Olive Schreiner Quotes

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• There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

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  Mom, Mother, Women

  The Story of an African Farm pt. 2, ch. 4 (1883) See Proverbs 129

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• My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

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  Sad, Hurt, Kindness

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.

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  Children, Ideas, People

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

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  Secret, Looks, Littles

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

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  Friendship, Beautiful, Something Beautiful

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• Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

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  Fathers Day, Dream, Men

  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.455, The Floating Press

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• Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

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  Wall, Iron, Kicks

  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.276, The Floating Press

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• Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

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  Reality, Two Sides, Ridiculous

  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.276, The Floating Press

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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

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  Tree, Scar, Youth

  Olive Schreiner (2014). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.92, Read Books Ltd

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• If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

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  Doors, Bird, Sugar

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.138, Courier Corporation

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• I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

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  Spring, Two, Snow

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.56, A&C Black

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• No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

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  Character, Men, Trying

  Olive Schreiner (2003). “Dreams”, p.95, A&C Black

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• There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

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  Love, Reality, Two

  Olive Schreiner (1986). “The Woman's Rose: Stories and Allegories”, Ad Donker Publishers

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• Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

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  Long, Smoke

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest--blank; and the world tells uswhat we are to be, and shapes us by the ends it sets before us. To you it says--Work; and to us it says--Seem! To you it says--As you approximate to man's highest ideal of God, as your arm is strong and your knowledge great, and the power to labour is with you, so you shall gain all that human heart desires. To us it says--Strength shall not help you, nor knowledge, nor labour. You shall gain what men gain, but by other means. And so the world makes men and women.

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  Strong, Mean, Heart

  Olive Schreiner (1896). “The Story of an African Farm: A Novel”

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• genius has no limit of sex or race.

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  Sex, Race, Genius

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.

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  Men, Doe, Cost

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• Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

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  Beautiful, Real, Soul

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Heart

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

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  Beautiful, Way, Pleasure

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

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  Helping Others, Thinking, People

  Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr

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• God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.

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  Men, Light, Perfect

  Olive Schreiner (2006). “Dreams”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.

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  Art, War, Ambition

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• We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

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  War, Gun, Men

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• 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.

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  Love, Flower, Blood

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.208, Courier Corporation

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