I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONCry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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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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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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