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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."

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"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."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."

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"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."

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"It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings."

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"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."
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"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."
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