And 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.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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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 the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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