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.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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