Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
- Olive Schreiner
Love, Color, Always, Monks
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
- Olive Schreiner
Last, Babes, Lay, Jaws
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
- Olive Schreiner
Sides, Outside, Ridiculous, Solemn
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
- Olive Schreiner
Dreams, Generation, Fathers, Phantoms
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
- Olive Schreiner
Thoughts, Paint, Ink, Fools
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
- Olive Schreiner
Mother, Never, Had, Great Man
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
- Olive Schreiner
Bring, Human Being, Being, Rear
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
- Olive Schreiner
Fear, Anxious, Ever, Good Work
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
Think, Always, Side, Moon
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
- Olive Schreiner
Born, Other, Them, Souls
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