The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATONHappy the eyes that can close
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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