For who can stop the heart from breaking?
ALAN PATONAnd 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 a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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