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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

Olive Schreiner's Popular Quotes

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppres…

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The surest sign of fitness is success.

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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

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

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The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

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A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite …

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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but wh…

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If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

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