Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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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.
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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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.
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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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.
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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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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.
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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.
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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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.
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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.
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Love alone could waken love.