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"42 Pearl S. Buck Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 26 June 1892. Died: 6 March 1973 | Writer | Novelist |

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Attack Truth Remain Silent
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

America Way Life Fails
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Eat Bread Without Hope
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Hunger Makes Thief Any
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The Secret Joy Work
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I am mentally bifocal.

Mentally Bifocal Am I
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Should Provide Old Age
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Person Who Tries Live
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Growth Itself Contains Germ
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
The Truth Without Speak
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

Don't Moods Accomplish Nothing
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

You Cannot Yourself Feel
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Society Make Our Right
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Joy Work Discover Fountain
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Great Mistake Every Halfway
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Order Shape Upon Beauty
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Some Kissing Mother's Some
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Praise Out Season Tactlessly
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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Religion Dead It May
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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Neglected Child What Planned
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

China Send Chinese Get
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Feel Need Any Faith
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

None Have Always Free
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Love dies only when growth stops.

Love Dies Only Growth
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Bitterest Creature Under Heaven
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Love alone could waken love.

Love Alone Could Waken
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Nothing Life Good Marriage
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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Absorb Am Angels Cannot
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Myself Inside Place Where
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Serve Beautiful But Only
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Men Rather Starving Free
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Young Enough Know Prudent
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Age Amount Come Contact
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One faces the future with one's past.
Faces Future One Past
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Basic Discovery About Any
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Chinese People Nothing No
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Today Want Yesterday To
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Self Expression Pass Communication
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Life Idealism Empty Indeed
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

When Men Destroy Old
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Good People Any Country
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Pearl S. Buck Quotes & Sayings