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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

Alan Paton

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
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
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
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
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
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
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
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
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

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