Happy the eyes that can close
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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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