For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONSuch development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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