Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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 sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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