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.
ALAN PATONPain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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