When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONNothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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