But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATONBut 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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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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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There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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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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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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