This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONIn 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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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 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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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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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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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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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Such 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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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