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Alan Paton

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
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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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World

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