Olive Schreiner Quotes and Quotations
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them. There is nothing ridiculous in love. There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them. Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. 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. 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. There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. 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. The surest sign of fitness is success. Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. 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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