These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
ALAN PATONIt 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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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