Sorrow is better than fear.
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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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In 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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