And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
ALAN PATONIt is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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