It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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