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• It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

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  Cutting, Men, Ice

  Olive Schreiner (1998). “Woman and Labor”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

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  Thinking, Feelings, World

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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• If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa.

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  Running, Rocks, Blue

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Equality, Ties

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

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• To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

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  Prayer, Sunday, Loss

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• The surest sign of fitness is success.

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  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

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  Writing, Looks, Paper

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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