It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
ALAN PATONThese hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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