Abraham Cahan quotes
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“If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.40, Courier Corporation
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“Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.”
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“What is wealth? A dream of fools.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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“What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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“The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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“To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.”
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“I was a great dreamer of day dreams.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.10, Courier Corporation
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“If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.44, Courier Corporation
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“If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.30, Courier Corporation
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“He considered the Rvolution a victroy for the Jews, which opinion, he said, prevailed on the East Side where rejoicing knew no bounds. We felt, added Mr. Cahan, that this is a great triumph for the Jews' cause. The anti-Jewish element in Russia has always been identified with the anti-revolutionary party. Jews having always sat high in the Councils of the revolutionists, all of our race became inseparably linked with the opponents of the government in the official mind.”
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“If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (1917). “The Rise of David Levinsky: A Novel”
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“Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation
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“Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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“You must never tire fighting Satan.”
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.41, Courier Corporation
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