The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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