Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONIt is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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