But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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