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.
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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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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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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
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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 mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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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 what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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