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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

Alan Paton

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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
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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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
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
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
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
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
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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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
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
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time

Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

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