Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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