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Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

~Charles W. Chesnutt

Topics: Chickens Come Home Like Roost Sins

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Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.

~Charles W. Chesnutt

Topics: Afterwards Always Cannot Control Evil Forces Motion Set Them Those

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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

~Charles W. Chesnutt

Topics: Happen Impossibilities Learned Merely Things Which Wish

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There's time enough, but none to spare.

~Charles W. Chesnutt

Topics: Enough None Spare Time

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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

Topics: Change Converted Dust Fiction He Life Man Men More Natures Often Real Real Life Reap Shall Sometimes Until Works

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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

Topics: Despair Divine Heart Human Human Heart Image Kind Make Moment Mystery Next Our Reflection See Them Universe Us Workings

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 20th, 1858

Died: November 15th, 1932

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