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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

Alan Paton

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
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
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
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
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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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
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
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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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
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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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
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
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
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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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
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
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time

Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

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