Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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 sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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