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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Alan Paton

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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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
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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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
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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Men Work
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Been Could Dwell Habit never
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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Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
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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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
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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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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As Development Exploit Name Such True
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
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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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security

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