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.
ALAN PATONPeople hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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