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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.

Alan Paton

There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.
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Endure Inhumanity Life One Only Own Way
Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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All Forgive Trespass Us
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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Kindness Love Pain Secret Suffer
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
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 PATON

Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
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Bondage Come Drawn Emancipation Fear Love
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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Central Concern Country Novel Publish Ussie Worth Wrote
For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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Break Heart Stop
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
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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Destroy Family Know Life Permissible Us
It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Cost Done Men One Other Permissible Possession These Thing
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
ALAN PATON

Men Work
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
ALAN PATON

Being Came Creator Ground Holy

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