The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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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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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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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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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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