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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.

Alan Paton

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man
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
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
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Being Came Creator Ground Holy
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
And money is not something to go mad about …
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Mad Money Something
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
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
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
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
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Much Rob Too
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
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

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