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Pearl S Buck Inspirational Quotes (134)

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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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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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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Love alone could waken love.
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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
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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.
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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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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
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Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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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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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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