Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATONThere is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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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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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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