It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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