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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

Alan Paton

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
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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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Abate Change Men Prevent Rule Strive Very
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing

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