The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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And 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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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.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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