For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
ALAN PATONThis is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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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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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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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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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 not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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