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Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

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Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
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Politician
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Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
Alen Peṭon
Enough
Johannesburg
Earth

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When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
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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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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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It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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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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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
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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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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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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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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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