When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONNor 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 is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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