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.
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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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