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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

Alan Paton

Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
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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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Better Fear Sorrow
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
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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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
Sorrow is better than fear.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

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