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.
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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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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 are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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