Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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