There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Nor 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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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