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

Alan Paton

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
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
ALAN PATON

Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
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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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
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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Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
Sadness 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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
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
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
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.
ALAN PATON

Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake

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