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Quote by Pearl S. Buck

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

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Pearl S. Buck was a prominent American writer born on June 26, 1892, and died on March 6, 1973. She is celebrated for her works that delve into Chinese culture and life, earning her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932 for her novel 'The Good Earth'. more

“Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.”

Ifs Feels Heart Persons Art Book Use Reading Pleasure Color Painting Paint Landscape Brushes Describing

Author:Pablo Picasso

“What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.”

Ifs World Mind Heart May Today Moving Spirit Dies Tomorrow Approach Concerned Program Crisis Affair Tides New Day Live For Today Unchanging Times Of Crisis Each New Day

Author:Owen D. Young

“Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.”

Men Heart Hope Beast Prey Birds Of Prey

Book:A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters.

Source: A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters.

“There is only one way into the Kingdom of Heaven, but there are many ways into the human heart: and the Church of Christ, ln its mission of promulgating truth and turning souls of righteousness, has legitimate use for every avenue of the heart.”

Way Humans Heart Soul Use Heaven Christ Church Missions Kingdoms One Way Righteousness Human Heart Avenues Kingdom Of Heaven Church Of Christ Every Avenue

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.”

Heart Art My Heart Simplicity Dear Charm Native Gloss Simplicity In Art

Book:Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod

Source: Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod

“A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.”

Heart Kind Kindness Comfort Clothes Naked Gentle Foe

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.”

Ifs Heart Art Joy Asks Fashion

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.”

Men Mind Heart Joy Names Sea Seasons Gentle Paradise Transport Murmuring

Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek

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