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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Church Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet Understand Work
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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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task

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