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.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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