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Category: Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner

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

Work, Good, Heart

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.

Man, Generation, Will

Olive Schreiner

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.

Olive Schreiner

The surest sign of fitness is success.

self, knowledge

Olive Schreiner

We bear the world and we make it…. There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

self, knowledge

Olive Schreiner

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

realistic, expectations

Olive Schreiner

We bear the world and we make it. … There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

helping, people

Olive Schreiner

There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.

helping, people

Olive Schreiner

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.

helping, people

Olive Schreiner

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

Olive Schreiner

There is nothing ridiculous in love.

Olive Schreiner

If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you see it.

artist, writer, writers, writers-world, writing-life