When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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