The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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