It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Cry 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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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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