Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
ALAN PATONAnd man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Let 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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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