But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
ALAN PATONMoney is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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