It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONLet 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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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