I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
ALAN PATONThere is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes.
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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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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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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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It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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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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What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
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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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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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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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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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