When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONForgive 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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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 am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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