When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
ALAN PATONBut to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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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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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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