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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

Alan Paton

Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
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Behind Eat Fool Nothing Panel Polish Wood
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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Endeavor Life Nothing Result She Success Taught
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
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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Another Counsel Cry Help Neither Seek Something
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
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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Children Dream Happy Hope Live Make Money Security
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply… For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
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
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Another Bring Broke Himself Kill Men
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Die Know Live Struggle
I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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Beautiful Face Land Question
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?
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Any Big Go Intention Judge Say Will Wound
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
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
There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.
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All Fall Much Now Silence Talk

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