Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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