It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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