The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONLife has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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 who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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