The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
ALAN PATONFear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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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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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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