But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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