Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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