For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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