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.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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