There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
ALAN PATON
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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