Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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