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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
The feet bear the burden of the body, the head the burden of the mind, and the heart the burden of the spirit,
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
Here was that question: Was life sad or happy? She did not mean her life or any one life, but life itself-was it sad or happy? If she but had the answer to that first question, Peony thought, then she would have her guide. If life could and should be happy, if to be alive itself was good, then why should she not try for everything that could be hers? But if, when all was won, life itself was sad, then she must content herself with what she had. Now this old question thrust itself before her, and she found no answer in her heart.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief."
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
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
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad,
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
She rose and washed and dressed herself and braided her hair freshly, and having made her room neat for the day she went into the peach-tree garden. It lay in the silence of the spring morning. Under the early sun the dew still hung in a bright mist on the grass, and the pool in the center of the garden was brimming its stone walls. The water was clear and the fish were flashing their golden sides near the surface. The great low-built house that surrounded the garden was still in sleep. Birds twittered in the eaves undisturbed and a small Pekingese dog slept on the threshold like a small lioness.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
Love must be taken on the tide, before it ebbs.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
To hate another human being is to take a worm into one's own vitals. It consumes life.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.
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Pearl S. Buck _ Peony: A Novel of China
To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
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