These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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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