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.
ALAN PATONBut when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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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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