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

Quote by Pearl S Buck

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't...

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't...

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Love alone could waken love.

Love alone could waken love.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope...

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope...

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His...

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may...

All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must...

One faces the future with one's past.

One faces the future with one's past.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know...

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know...

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and...

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and...

I am mentally bifocal.

I am mentally bifocal.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and...

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and...