I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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