Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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