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.
ALAN PATONMoney 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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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