This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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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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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.
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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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