Happy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for?
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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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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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Cry 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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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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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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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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