This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONBut 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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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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