When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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