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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.

Alan Paton

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
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound
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
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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Beauty Country Field Hedge Talk Time
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
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
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Already Although Come Nothing Something
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand
The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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Broken Thing Tragedy
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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Dep Done Forgive Injury Recover Until
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Clothes Comfort Food Money Picture Visit

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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