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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Alan Paton

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Better Fear Sorrow
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too

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