There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATONBut when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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