Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONWise 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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate 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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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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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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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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 for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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