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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

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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? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

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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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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

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Happy the eyes that can close

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For who can stop the heart from breaking?

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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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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.

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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 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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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. 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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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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

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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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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

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