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ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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