Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
ALAN PATONCry, 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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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