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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Alan Paton

The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
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
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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Already Being Day One People Rebuilt Tribe
Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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Build Create Future Generate Mistake Past Reconciliation
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
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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Hard Obedient Open Other Perhaps Quiet School Too Wear Work
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work
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.
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Back Broad Compassion Full Gold Heaven Nothing Purse Reach
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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All Greatest Offence Punish Restore
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON

Judge Law Make People

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

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