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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

Alan Paton

And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
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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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
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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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
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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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
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
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

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