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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.

Alan Paton

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
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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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
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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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
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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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
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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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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All Road Country Lead Pople
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
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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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley

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