And money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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