One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONAnd man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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 for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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