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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

Alan Paton

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Better Fear Sorrow
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
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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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Been Could Dwell Habit never
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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Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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