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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

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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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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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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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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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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. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

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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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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. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. 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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

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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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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

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Happy the eyes that can close

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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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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

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