Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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