Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. -Olive Schreiner

 

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.


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This quote is just one of 7 total Olive Schreiner quotes in our collection. Olive Schreiner is known for saying 'Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.' as well as some of the following quotes.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

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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.

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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. -Olive Schreiner
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

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156

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. -Olive Schreiner
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We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.

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