This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
ALAN PATONNow 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 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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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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Happy the eyes that can close
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Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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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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