Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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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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