For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATONFor fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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