Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
About Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnuttwas an American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux.
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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
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Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
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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.
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There’s time enough, but none to spare.
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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.
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Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
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