What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATONWhen a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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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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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.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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