Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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