There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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