But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATONNosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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