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Pearl S. Buck
American
Novelist
Born:
Jun 26
,
1892
Died:
Mar 6
,
1973
Am
Hope
Life
Man
Men
Work
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
Pearl S. Buck
Good
Prevail
Struggle
People
Evil
Good People
Men
Country
Cease
Any
Then
Vigilance
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.
Pearl S. Buck
People
Fear
Old
Young
Society
Cares
Our
Way
Members
Possible
Must
Civilization
Make
Test
Them
Old People
Helpless
Deserted
Right
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl S. Buck
You
Yourself
Feelings
Something
Spite
Feel
Make
Cannot
Your
Right
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
Pearl S. Buck
Evil
Darkest
Those
Shadow
Only
Colored
Allow
Feel
Over
Least
Go
Effects
Race
Race Prejudice
Us
Prejudice
Who
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck
You
Age
Judge
Pain
Contact
Idea
Feel
New
Come
New Idea
Your
Amount
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck
Love
Good
Change
Marriage
Way
Good Marriage
Individuals
Which
Express
Growth
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck
Life
Death
Hope
Starve
Indeed
Idealism
Empty
Without
Just
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
Pearl S. Buck
Beautiful
Heart
Joy
Mind
Free
Only
Done
Whole
Serve
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.
Pearl S. Buck
Alone
Thoughts
Heart
Human Being
Mind
Will
Own
Live
Other
Tries
Finds
Echoes
Only
Inspiration
He
Another
Answer
Does
His
Hears
Person
Human
Being
Succeed
Who
Away
Shrinks
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.
Pearl S. Buck
Work
You
Wait
Mind
Nothing
Down
Moods
Must
Know
Got
Accomplish
Get
Your
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
Pearl S. Buck
Love
Mom
Together
Kiss
Some
Kissing
Most
Mothers
Scold
Same
Just
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
Work
Joy
Word
Enjoy
Secret
One Word
Something
Excellence
Contained
Know
Well
How
The Secret Of
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Pearl S. Buck
Communication
Must
Self-Expression
Pass
Fulfillment
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck
Hope
Freedom
Free
Power
Those
Terrible
Understand
None
Always
Been
Who
Fascinating
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck
Life
Our
Way
Fails
Child
American
Us
American Way
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Pearl S. Buck
Before
Neglect
Neglected
Born
He
Begins
Child
Wanted
Planned
Therefore
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.
Pearl S. Buck
Strength
Religion
Too Late
Better
Try
Before
Too
Other
Late
Ourselves
Moral
Had
Know
Dead
Discover
Sources
May
Set
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.
Pearl S. Buck
Strength
Fool
Wife
Gun
Husband
Power
Bitterest
Only
His
Discovers
Hands
Bravado
Bravery
Heaven
Uniform
Who
Creature
Her
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl S. Buck
People
Nothing
Destroy
Relentless
No-One
Survivors
Chinese
Chinese People
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.
Pearl S. Buck
Education
Home
Needs
Man
Woman
World
Aim
Out
Outside
Should
I am mentally bifocal.
Pearl S. Buck
Mentally
Am
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck
Heart
Blame
Out
Bestowed
Freeze
Praise
Much
Season
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck
Life
Truth
Truth Is
Speak
Exciting
Without
Always
Dull
Then
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck
Life
Good
Man
Woman
Marriage
Nothing
Minds
True
Between
Itself
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.
Pearl S. Buck
Life
Old
Think
Earth
Angels
Absorb
Like
Am
Wonder
Heaven
Cannot
Confucius
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
Pearl S. Buck
Work
Man
Woman
Grass
Out
Educated
Turned
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