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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.

Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Better Fear Sorrow
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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Men Work
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
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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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
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
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
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question

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