Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONThen some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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