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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

Alan Paton

These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Capitulate Country Destroy Go Himself Nowhere Rather
And 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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
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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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
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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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Endeavor God Leave Result Seek Sustenance Taught
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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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security

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