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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.

Alan Paton

Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Better Fear Sorrow
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
St. 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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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
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
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
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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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
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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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong

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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