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.
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 who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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