Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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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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And money is not something to go mad about …
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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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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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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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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