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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Paton

But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
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
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
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
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Again Mend Thing Tragedy
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATON

Better Fear Sorrow

Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

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