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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

Alan Paton

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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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
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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Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
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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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Church Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet Understand Work
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Completely Love One Only Power Thing
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
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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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
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.
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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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