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. -Olive Schreiner

 

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

Olive Schreiner

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

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

Olive Schreiner

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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