Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONSt. 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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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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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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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