But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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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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Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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