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.
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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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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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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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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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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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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