Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONThere 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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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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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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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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