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ALAN PATONSadness 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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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