Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
ALAN PATONThe ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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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.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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