Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
ALAN PATONThe 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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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