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.
ALAN PATONI 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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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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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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