"Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down."

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Source : Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.276, The Floating Press

Olive Schreiner

#Wall Quotes #Iron Quotes #Kicks Quotes

“Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.”
“My future's about trying to be a better man”
“Just love. The rest is bullshit.”
“I'm no wealthier than Bibi Netanyahu or Arik Sharon. I don't feel that I'm more hedonistic than Ehud Olmert, or Yitzhak Rabin or Shimon Peres.”
“I don't swim! That's like athletic.”
“While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.”
“In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.”
“There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?”

Source : Diana Peterfreund (2009). “TAP & GOWN (EBK)”, p.264, Delta

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