Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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