For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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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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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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