Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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