Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
ALAN PATONMoney is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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