Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan
Abraham "Abe" Cahanwas a Belarusian-born Jewish-American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician...
NationalityLithuanian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 July 1860
CountryLithuania
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
dream fool wealth
What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
humble simple be-humble
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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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.
proud be-proud feels
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.