Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
ALAN PATONOne 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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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