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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

Alan Paton

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
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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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
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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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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As Development Exploit Name Such True
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
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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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Abate Change Men Prevent Rule Strive Very
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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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet

But 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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