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Pearl S. Buck

"Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame."

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"Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame."

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"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."

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"So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes."

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"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."

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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

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"They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings."

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"Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound."

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"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

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"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books."

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"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."

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"Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity."
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"It is better not to say 'lend.' There is only giving."
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"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."
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