When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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