For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONBut sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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