Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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