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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Alan Paton

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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
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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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
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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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
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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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
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
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
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
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

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