Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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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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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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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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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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