When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONOne day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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