When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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