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Alan Paton

And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
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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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
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
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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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
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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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
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
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten

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