Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
ALAN PATONWise 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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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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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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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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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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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