In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
More Alan Paton Quotes
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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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She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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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 tragedy is that things are not mended again.
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Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
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I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi.
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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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For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
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There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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