Olive Schreiner Quotes

By our errors we see deeper into life. - Olive Schreiner quote.

By our errors we see deeper into life.
— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. - Olive Schreiner quote.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm

Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour. - Olive Schreiner quote.

Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.
— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm

experience passion

Greatness is to take the common things of life, and walk truly among them.
— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm

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Sin looks much more terrible to those who look at it than to those who do it. - Olive Schreiner quote.

Sin looks much more terrible to those who look at it than to those who do it.
— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm

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There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very own inmost thoughts in another. - Olive Schreiner quote.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very own inmost thoughts in another.
— Olive Schreiner

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

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

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 The Story of an African Farm: A Novel

moon men and women

Know your aim, and live for that one thing. We have only one life. The secret of success is concentration; wherever there has been a great life, or a great work, that [concentration] has gone before. Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing. - Olive Schreiner quote.

Know your aim, and live for that one thing.  We have only one life.  The secret of success is concentration; wherever there has been a great life, or a great work, that [concentration] has gone before.  Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
— Olive Schreiner The Story of an African Farm

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