One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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