Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATONCry, 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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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