One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
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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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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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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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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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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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