I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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