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

Alan Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.
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Free Give Man Reform Responsibility Society Task
I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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Christian Free Suffer Thought
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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Deep Good Here Something Touch
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
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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Men Work
Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.
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Arrival Fear Journey Sorrow Terribly
Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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According Judge Justice Law Unjust
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
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Away Compass False Journey Lie Life Ned Play Rest Slip
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
Sorrow is better than fear.
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Better Fear Sorrow
But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
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Kindness Learn Love Pain Pay Suffer
Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Bird Land Move Sing
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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Belief Fear Love Only Power Resist
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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Air Hat Mad Men Mine Money Something Throw
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
St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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Country Creation Great Healer Make Taught Use Wound

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

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