But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATONAnd 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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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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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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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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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