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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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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