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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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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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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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