Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATON
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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