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

Alan Paton

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
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
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
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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
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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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Church Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet Understand Work
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
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
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
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
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
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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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
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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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
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

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