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Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love? By Pearl S. Buck

It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid. By Pearl S. Buck

To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292 By Pearl S. Buck

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious. By Pearl S. Buck

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium. By Pearl S. Buck

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. By Pearl S. Buck

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think. By Pearl S. Buck

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. By Pearl S. Buck

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living. By Pearl S. Buck

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated - and turned out to grass. By Pearl S. Buck

You seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come. By Pearl S. Buck

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself ... a human being. By Pearl S. Buck

I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul. By Pearl S. Buck

The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her. By Pearl S. Buck

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty. By Pearl S. Buck

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there. By Pearl S. Buck

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did. By Pearl S. Buck

The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them. By Pearl S. Buck

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes. By Pearl S. Buck

The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be. By Pearl S. Buck

Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times. By Pearl S. Buck

Every mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. By Pearl S. Buck

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad By Pearl S. Buck

You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad. By Pearl S. Buck

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control. By Pearl S. Buck

What is the conscience? It is the most highly developed part of the human being, the core of the spirit, the most sensitive, the most tender. By Pearl S. Buck

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone. By Pearl S. Buck

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. By Pearl S. Buck

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political. By Pearl S. Buck

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them. By Pearl S. Buck

Drive out the tiger by the front gate and let in the wolf by the back gate, ... By Pearl S. Buck

From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin ... For me that house was a gateway to America. By Pearl S. Buck

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son. By Pearl S. Buck

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. By Pearl S. Buck

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. By Pearl S. Buck

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love? By Pearl S. Buck

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon. By Pearl S. Buck

And looked sharply across the street. There was only one house By Pearl S. Buck

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. By Pearl S. Buck

Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved - By Pearl S. Buck

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over. By Pearl S. Buck

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. By Pearl S. Buck

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. By Pearl S. Buck

To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others. By Pearl S. Buck

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it. By Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. By Pearl S. Buck

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. By Pearl S. Buck

Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71). By Pearl S. Buck

The tears of the old come as easily as the tears of children, By Pearl S. Buck

Nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons. By Pearl S. Buck

Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom. By Pearl S. Buck

The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit. By Pearl S. Buck

Destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. By Pearl S. Buck

Can one spit on a smiling face?" he inquired; or he said, "Vengeance cannot last a night's sleep. By Pearl S. Buck

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. By Pearl S. Buck

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. By Pearl S. Buck

The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter! By Pearl S. Buck

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was. By Pearl S. Buck

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night. By Pearl S. Buck

Nothing is menial where there is love. By Pearl S. Buck

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. By Pearl S. Buck

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ... By Pearl S. Buck

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. By Pearl S. Buck

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. By Pearl S. Buck

All things are possible until they are proven impossible. By Pearl S. Buck

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. By Pearl S. Buck

We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love. By Pearl S. Buck

Times were chosen and appointed. If one forced them, they were wrong. By Pearl S. Buck

Love dies only when growth stops. By Pearl S. Buck

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear. By Pearl S. Buck

steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all By Pearl S. Buck

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. By Pearl S. Buck

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. By Pearl S. Buck

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable. By Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen. By Pearl S. Buck

Only very coarse persons wanted wars. By Pearl S. Buck

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. By Pearl S. Buck

In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. By Pearl S. Buck

But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women. By Pearl S. Buck

Hunger makes a thief of any man. By Pearl S. Buck

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born. By Pearl S. Buck

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity. By Pearl S. Buck

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57) By Pearl S. Buck

This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise. By Pearl S. Buck

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone. By Pearl S. Buck

It is worse than folly ... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow. By Pearl S. Buck

All that had been was now no more. By Pearl S. Buck

It was Wang Lung's marriage day. By Pearl S. Buck

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old ... - Wang Lung By Pearl S. Buck

Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun By Pearl S. Buck

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be ... By Pearl S. Buck

Body and soul are partners, and neither must desert the other. By Pearl S. Buck

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not. By Pearl S. Buck

Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.' By Pearl S. Buck

It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The By Pearl S. Buck

I don't know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid. By Pearl S. Buck

It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty. By Pearl S. Buck

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal. By Pearl S. Buck

If life were known one moment ahead, how could it be endured? By Pearl S. Buck

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. By Pearl S. Buck

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food. By Pearl S. Buck

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. By Pearl S. Buck

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well. By Pearl S. Buck

The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness. By Pearl S. Buck

When the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war. By Pearl S. Buck

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do. By Pearl S. Buck

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that. By Pearl S. Buck

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals. By Pearl S. Buck

Love must be taken on the tide, before it ebbs. By Pearl S. Buck

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman, By Pearl S. Buck

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation. By Pearl S. Buck

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. By Pearl S. Buck

The superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind. By Pearl S. Buck

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve. By Pearl S. Buck

From the stars," she thought, "doubtless all things are seen. By Pearl S. Buck

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ... By Pearl S. Buck

There is no beauty without order. By Pearl S. Buck

When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. By Pearl S. Buck

Hope must come out of what we have, or it is not hope, but a dream. By Pearl S. Buck

The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease. By Pearl S. Buck

God - if there is a God - would not choose one man above another or one people above another. By Pearl S. Buck

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. By Pearl S. Buck

We must have hope or starve to death. By Pearl S. Buck

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure. By Pearl S. Buck

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members By Pearl S. Buck

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. By Pearl S. Buck

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds. By Pearl S. Buck

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. By Pearl S. Buck

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet. By Pearl S. Buck

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. By Pearl S. Buck

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation. By Pearl S. Buck

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. By Pearl S. Buck

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them. By Pearl S. Buck

What the common man cannot understand he hates. By Pearl S. Buck

I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault. By Pearl S. Buck

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. By Pearl S. Buck

We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike. By Pearl S. Buck

Life is stronger than death. By Pearl S. Buck

Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. By Pearl S. Buck

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. By Pearl S. Buck

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought. By Pearl S. Buck

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. By Pearl S. Buck

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it. By Pearl S. Buck

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. By Pearl S. Buck

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused. By Pearl S. Buck

I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that. By Pearl S. Buck

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers. By Pearl S. Buck

The heart never grows old. By Pearl S. Buck

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. By Pearl S. Buck

When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails. By Pearl S. Buck

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him. By Pearl S. Buck

thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes By Pearl S. Buck

All birth is unwilling. By Pearl S. Buck

Happiness was waiting to be chosen. By Pearl S. Buck

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world. By Pearl S. Buck

For generations fathers had watched earth and sea. By Pearl S. Buck

Believing in gods always causes confusion. By Pearl S. Buck

We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America. By Pearl S. Buck

The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything - or nothing. By Pearl S. Buck

In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close. By Pearl S. Buck

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. By Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. By Pearl S. Buck

What seems new is only new to us. By Pearl S. Buck

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving. By Pearl S. Buck

And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place. By Pearl S. Buck

There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food. By Pearl S. Buck

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless. By Pearl S. Buck

One faces the future with one's past. By Pearl S. Buck

To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life. By Pearl S. Buck

None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God. By Pearl S. Buck

Love alone could waken love. By Pearl S. Buck

He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love. By Pearl S. Buck

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together By Pearl S. Buck

Attachment," Buddha had said, "is the cause of grief. By Pearl S. Buck

Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. By Pearl S. Buck

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. By Pearl S. Buck

and his voice came from him in a whisper, By Pearl S. Buck

Purposeless activity may be a phase of death. By Pearl S. Buck

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body! By Pearl S. Buck

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement. By Pearl S. Buck

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart. By Pearl S. Buck

The rich are always afraid. By Pearl S. Buck

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. By Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old. By Pearl S. Buck

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge. By Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women. By Pearl S. Buck

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. By Pearl S. Buck

There is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity. By Pearl S. Buck

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness. By Pearl S. Buck

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses. By Pearl S. Buck

Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same. By Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. By Pearl S. Buck

Hunger makes thief of any man. By Pearl S. Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. By Pearl S. Buck

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation. By Pearl S. Buck

And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land. By Pearl S. Buck

Vermont is a country unto itself. By Pearl S. Buck

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them. By Pearl S. Buck

An artist is always seeking revelation. By Pearl S. Buck

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources. By Pearl S. Buck