People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATONSuch lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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 perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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