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.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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