Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONIn 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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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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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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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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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 Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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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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