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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.

Alan Paton

Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Church Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet Understand Work
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
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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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
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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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
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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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
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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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
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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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
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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