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

Alan Paton

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
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.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
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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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
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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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
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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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World

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