There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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 development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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