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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Alan Paton

People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
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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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
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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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
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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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Been Could Dwell Habit never
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until

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