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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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