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Alan Paton

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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Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
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
One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
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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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
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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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
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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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy

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