The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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