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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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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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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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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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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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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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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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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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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
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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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Love alone could waken love.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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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.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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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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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.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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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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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
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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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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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Category: Literature Quotes
Occupation: Novelist
Date of Birth: June 6, 1892
Date of Death: March 6, 1973
Nationality: American





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