There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
ALAN PATONI couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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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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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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