Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
ALAN PATONCry 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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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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