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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

Alan Paton

Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Always Better Enrich Fear Impoversih Sorrow
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Ask Expedient Right Yourself
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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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
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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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought

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