I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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