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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Paton

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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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
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
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Church Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet Understand Work
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
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
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
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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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
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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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth

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