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?
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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But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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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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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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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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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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And money is not something to go mad about …
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Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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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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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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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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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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