The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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 who can stop the heart from breaking?
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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