And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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