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 PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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