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.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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