For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONAnd 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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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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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