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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

Alan Paton

The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Down Eath Enjoy Fear Heart Land Lovely Man Pour Sun
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
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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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
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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Afraid Anger Defend Let Poor Strong Weak
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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Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
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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Country Envision Great Peaceful Pride Someday Soulful Tak World
For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Endurable Inhumanity Make Man Only Way
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit
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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Believe Come Knew Lord Our Suffer
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Men Work

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