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ALAN PATONIt is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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