It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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