Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONLet him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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 it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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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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