Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATONCry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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 sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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