There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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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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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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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These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
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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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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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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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Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing.
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Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
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If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
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