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.
ALAN PATONWhat 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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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