There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATONBehind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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