Soul, what have I to do with you? Olive Schreiner More Quotes by Olive Schreiner More Quotes From Olive Schreiner No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. Olive Schreiner fear heart inspirational Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched. Olive Schreiner real soul beautiful We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life. Olive Schreiner gun men war Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do. Olive Schreiner sacred given feels There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks. Olive Schreiner strong doors men God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light. Olive Schreiner light perfect men A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again. Olive Schreiner century use may For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue. Olive Schreiner outsiders experience action I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself. Olive Schreiner music wish beautiful There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another. Olive Schreiner something-beautiful beautiful friendship 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. Olive Schreiner helping-others people thinking 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 loneliness ignorance children If Nature here wishes to make a mountain, she runs a range for five hundred miles; if a plain, she levels eighty; if a rock, she tilts five thousand feet of strata on end; our skies are higher and more intensely blue; our waves larger than others; our rivers fiercer. There is nothing measured, small nor petty in South Africa. Olive Schreiner rocks blue running They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything. Olive Schreiner names education school We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood. Olive Schreiner race blood moving Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world. Olive Schreiner soul love-is beautiful 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 when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead. Olive Schreiner scar youth tree Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it. Olive Schreiner development together beautiful 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 power running men [Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . . Olive Schreiner space school moving
