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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

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
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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Begun Continue Finish One Something Thing
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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Ehetehr Grass Halt Moment Movement See Wake
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Cry Done Hundred Must Thousand Voice
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Abate Change Men Prevent Rule Strive Very
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
ALAN PATON

Ask Expedient Right Yourself
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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Afraid House Man Storm Threaten
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
ALAN PATON

Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
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Completely Love Man One Power Thing Wise
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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Ever Except Foot Nothing Quiet
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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As Development Exploit Name Such True
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
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
ALAN PATON

Another Broke Could Himself Kill Man

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