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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Alan Paton

But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
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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Beat Broke Death Down Flesh Heart Knife Living Thrust
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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Children Clothes Food Happy Love Money Picture
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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All Road Country Lead Pople
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
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
The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth
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
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
ALAN PATON

Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn

Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

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