One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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