But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATON
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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.
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