Charles W. Chesnutt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There's time enough, but none to spare.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Time #Time Management #Enough
Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Motivational #Evil #Force
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Attitude #Wish #Impossibility
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Real #Men #Dust
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Heart #Godly #Reflection
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Littles #Underestimate #Sometimes
Race prejudice is the devil unchained.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Race #Justice #Devil
We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Steel #Band #Sin
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings...
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Fate #Destiny #Hands
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Roots #Self #Humanity
I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Dream #Book #Writing
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Home #Godly #Sin
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt

#Heart #Mystery #Humans

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