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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.

Alan Paton

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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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
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
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
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
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
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
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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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
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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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing

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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