Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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