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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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