But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
ALAN PATONLet me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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