Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONMoney is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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 are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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