Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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There 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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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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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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