The tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONBut I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Cry, 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 is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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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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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Sorrow is better than fear.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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