Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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