Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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