There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATONTo give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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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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The tragedy is not that things are broken.
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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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Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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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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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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