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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.

Alan Paton

Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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Book Hard Human Many Struggle Understand Wisdom Write
Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Been Could Dwell Habit never
Happy the eyes that can close
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Close Eye Happy One Liner
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Enough No One People Second
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Been Before Bring Come Death Destructive Lighten never Such Thunder
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
Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Beloved Country Cry End Thing Yet
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
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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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Destruction Environment Exemplify Humanity Live Man Own Place Reverence
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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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
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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Christian Civilization Compound Fearful Grant Ideal Love Possession Practice Tragic Truth

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