Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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