But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONBut 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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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