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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.

Alan Paton

But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
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
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
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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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
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

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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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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