When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATONWhat broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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