There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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