This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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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.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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