Abraham Cahan Quotes

• If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

  Abraham Cahan

  Fasting, Study, Praying

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.40, 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.

  Abraham Cahan

  Smile, Lying, Deceit

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

  Abraham Cahan

  Heart, Fighting, Envy

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, 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 Cahan

  Seems

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• You must never tire fighting Satan.

  Abraham Cahan

  Fighting, Satan, Tire

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

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  Dream, Dreamer, Great Day

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

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  Proud, Be Proud, Feels

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

  Abraham Cahan

  Life, Life Is

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  Abraham Cahan

  Humble, Simple, Be Humble

  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 Cahan

  Men, Fire, Example

  Abraham Cahan (1917). “The Rise of David Levinsky: A Novel”

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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.

  Abraham Cahan

  Brother, New York, Prayer

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• What is wealth? A dream of fools.

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  Dream, Fool, Wealth

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, 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 Cahan

  Broken Heart, Men, Laughing

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  Abraham Cahan

  Reality, Other Worlds, Tangible

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

  Abraham Cahan

  Religious, Jewish Faith, Orthodox

  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.

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  Spiritual, Race, People

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

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  Wind, Curls, World

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.34, 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.

  Abraham Cahan

  Party, Russia, Race

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