Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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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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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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.
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