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

Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Better Fear Sorrow
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
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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Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank
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
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
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
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought

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