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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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"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."
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"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"
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"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."
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"Secrets, Kohler finally said, "are a luxury we can no longer afford."
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"I never seemed to learn from joy, I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness."
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"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."
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"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."
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"As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express."
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"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."
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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."
Love
"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."
Wisdom
"When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive."
Forgiveness
"But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."
Power
"I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution."
Nation
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man."
Society
"If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing."
Concern
"You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right."
Righteousness
"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."
Life
"God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?"
God
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