Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
ALAN PATON
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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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