But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATONFor 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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country.
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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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Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved.
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Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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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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The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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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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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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