Happy the eyes that can close
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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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 is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Life 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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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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