Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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