I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
ALAN PATONThere is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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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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Sorrow is better than fear.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
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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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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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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
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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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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
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Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
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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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Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret.
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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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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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