For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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