But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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