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Olive Schreiner quotes

South african Writer March 24, 1855 – December 11, 1920

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And she said, in a voice strangely unlike her own, 'I see the vision of a poor weak soul striving after good. It was not cut short; and, in the end, it learnt, through tears and much pain, that holiness is an infinite compassion for others; that greatness is to take the common things of life and walk truly among them; that' - she moved her white hand and laid it on her forehead - 'happiness is a great love and much serving. It was not cut short; and it loved what it had learnt - it loved 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
Olive Schreiner quote: "My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining..."
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner quote: "No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious..."
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. Olive Schreiner
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance. 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
Olive Schreiner quote: "There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
There was never a great man who had not a great mother. Olive Schreiner
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. Olive Schreiner
This dirty little world full of confusion, and the blue rag, stretched overhead for a sky, is so low we could touch it with our hand. Olive Schreiner
I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms. 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
Olive Schreiner quote: "Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other..."
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner quote: "We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have..."
We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World. 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
Olive Schreiner quote: "How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but..."
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. Olive Schreiner

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