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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

Alan Paton

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
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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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
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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Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
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
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing

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