And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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