Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONLife has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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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 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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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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 fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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