It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
ALAN PATONThere is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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