It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
ALAN PATONWhen the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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