Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONAll roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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