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

Alan Paton

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
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Judge Law Make People
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
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
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
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
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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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Been Could Dwell Habit never
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
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
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
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust

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

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