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.
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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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And 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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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