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.
ALAN PATONNor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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