Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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 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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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