Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.
Men take more pains to mask than mend.
He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.
You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.
We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.