But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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 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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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