It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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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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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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, 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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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