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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

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
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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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
What 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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work

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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