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

Alan Paton

Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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Doom Fear Hate Hell Messenger Mind Open Sadness
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
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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Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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As Development Exploit Name Such True
Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Aloud Aye Bereaved Children Custom Dead Law Tribe Woman
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Beyond Covered Grass Love Roll Sing
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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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
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
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
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

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