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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

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

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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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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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The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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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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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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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

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

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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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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

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It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

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