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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.

Alan Paton

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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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
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.
ALAN PATON

Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Abate Change Men Prevent Rule Strive Very
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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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
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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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Achieve Always Found Love Morbid Preoccupation Save Shortcoming Society
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
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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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON

As Development Exploit Name Such True
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON

Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop

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