People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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