Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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