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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

Alan Paton

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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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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All Road Country Lead Pople
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
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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Can God Heal Hill Music Name Now River Such Thank
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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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
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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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
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
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

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